Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: In his Own Voice
- Introduction: Reading in the company of Es'kia Mphahlele
- Correspondents
- 1943
- 1944
- 1948
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1985
- 1987
- 1997
- 2000
- 2002
- 2005
- 2006
- Interviews: Looking In: In Search of Es'kia Mphahlele
- Metaphors of Self
- Interview References
- Index
2002
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: In his Own Voice
- Introduction: Reading in the company of Es'kia Mphahlele
- Correspondents
- 1943
- 1944
- 1948
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1985
- 1987
- 1997
- 2000
- 2002
- 2005
- 2006
- Interviews: Looking In: In Search of Es'kia Mphahlele
- Metaphors of Self
- Interview References
- Index
Summary
Chuenespoort
21 April 2002
Dear Stephen,
Sure, go ahead with the story. Good news that the anthology has another lease on life. I love the story & am happy I have your aesthetic judgment to back up my paternal bias.
I am amazed to see your address hasn't changed. Someone told me recently that you have relocated. Couldn't get it as I would expect you to inform me as one of your admirers. Indeed, the duration of one's residence in a place is a sign that person & place can contain each other, or else one will spit out the other!
There's something brewing in the Mphahlele workshop. A friend has undertaken to relieve me of a lot of papers – articles, addresses, etc – all expository stuff – and seek funding for their publication. In accord with my wishes I'm not in the editorial team he has chosen to do the selecting. Their job is all but completed. I only need to give it the once-over. September is roughly scheduled for the publication, ie 2002. Just thought ‘to bite your ear’ (equivalent of Sesotho for ‘whispering in your ear’).
Keep well, good friend, prosper.
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- Bury Me at the MarketplaceEs'kia Mphahlele and Company: Letters 1943-2006, pp. 458Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2009